Life in Culebrón

Everyone knows that Germans don't have a sense of humour. Everyone knows that people from the United States are fat, that Jamaicans have...

One of the people I talk Spanish to, online, asked me about how the bar bill is settled in the UK. I'm sure that, if you live in Spain...

It's nice to think that people remember me from time to time. This week two old friends sent me the same article they'd both seen ...

Spaniards seem to like napkins more than Britons. Now I'm not trying to say that we Britons don't like napkins or that there is so...

I hate that old person thing. It's six in the morning; I'm wide awake, it's pretty obvious that I'm not going back to slee...

It's been a funny old day. I was expecting music in the streets and a bit of exploration near Caravaca de la Cruz in Murcia but the we...

I'm not a big Google+ user. The other day I came across something called Communities, which seem to be collections of items around ...

When I first started the  blog it was simple. The idea was to celebrate, or at least note, the diffferences between what I'd always co...

I once worked with someone who was keen on illicit drugs. He came from Huddersfield but we were working near Newcastle and he was having ...

It was a  Bank Holiday weekend (of sorts). You could tell this because the day off, the Saturday, was overcast and cool. We went to Valenc...

I think it was John who told us there was a nice new bar in La Romana so, as we were passing, we dropped in for a coffee. He was right. Lo...

I talked to my mum on the phone today. She asked me how my birthday had gone on Wednesday. She apologised for only having sent a card and ...

Every now and again I write an email to someone. This is like writing a letter in the olden days. Personal communication. Facebook message...